tals would then have a direct incentive to invest in reducing readmissions, and Medicare would benefit from immediate savings and progressively lower rates. Our approach would measure a hospital’s readmissions performance against its own historical record and population, avoiding the need for complex risk adjustment or adjustments for readmissions to nonindex hospitals, since they would already...

This paper empirically investigates the resource distribution dynamics across Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) of elective surgery patients, in a continuing Prospective Payment System (PPS). Existing econometric literature has mainly focussed on the impact of PPS on average Length of Stay (LOS) concluding that the average LOS has declined post PPS. There is little literature on the distribution ...

In this paper, we address the problem of planning the patient flow in hospitals subject to scarce medical resources with the objective of maximizing the contribution margin. We assume that we can classify a large enough percentage of elective patients according to their diagnosis-related group (DRG) and clinical pathway. The clinical pathway defines the procedures (such as different types of di...

objective: sensory neurons in dorsal root ganglia (drg) undergo apoptosis after peripheral nerve injury. the aim of this study was to investigate sensory neuron death and the mechanism involved in the death of these neurons in cultured drg. materials and methods: in this experimental study, l5 drg from adult mouse were dissected and incubated in culture medium for 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours. fresh...

Dorsal root ganglion stimulation (DRG-S) is a promising therapy for chronic neuropathic pain, but complications of this are poorly understood. Twiddler's syndrome, rare complication characterized by lead displacement and coiling wires, has been reported in other neuromodulation devices, not described the context DRG-S. Here, we present first-of-a-kind case report syndrome occurring after 8 mont...

QUESTIONS Treatment of patients with severe injuries is costly, with best results achieved in specialised care centres. However, diagnosis-related group (DRG)-based prospective payment systems have difficulties in depicting treatment costs for specialised care. We analysed reimbursement of care for severe trauma in the first 3 years after the introduction of the Swiss DRG reimbursement system (...